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Typed and handwritten notes written by Hugo Young to record political conversations and informal interviews held with individuals from 1969-1976.

The conversations are with the following people:

Douglas Hurd, 5 November 1969

Willam Whitelaw, 20 January 1970

Michael Fraser, 10 March 1970
John Biffen, 24 March 1970

Notes of talk with Reginald Maudling, 28 May 1970
Notes of an off-the-record conversation with Douglas Hurd on Heath's staff, 29 May 1970 - CLOSED

Memorandum from F.T.R Giles to Hugo Young detailing discussion over lunch with Donald Maitland, 24 September 1970
Labour 'Post Mortem', 25 September 1970
Douglas Hurd, 29 September 1970

Robin Balniel, 4 November 1970
John Biffen, 12 November 1970
Lunch with MacDonnell ('MJB') 17 November 1970

'Off the record' with Lord Robens, 1 December 1970 - CLOSED

Notes on [Harold] Wilson memoirs, 31 March 1971

Notes on lunch with Reginald Maudling, 1 February 1972 - CLOSED

Douglas Hurd, 7 November 1973
Terry Pitt, 20 November 1973
Tony Benn, 30 November 1973

'BRW' (Conservative MP) 6 December 1973
Michael Wolff, 18 December 1973
Notes on Michael Wolff, 18 December 1973
Talk with Prime Minister, 20 December 1973 - CLOSED*

Copy of letter from Edward Heath to Joseph Gormley, concerning the restrictions on use of electricity in industry due to the world energy crisis, 23 January 1974
Len Murray, 24 January 1974
Memorandum from the Editor of the Sunday Times to Hugo Young, detailing a confidential conversation with James Prior, about 'The Crisis', 30 January 1974 - CLOSED

Memorandum from the Editor of the Sunday Times to Hugo Young, about Labour party opinion on the miner's strike, 7 February 1974
Notes taken from Richard Rose conversation, Feb-Mar 1974

Alexander Lyon, 24 May 1974

Lord Windlesham, 5 June 1974
Report from Foreign Office, 6 June 1974
Report from Cabinet Office, 6 June 1974
[Michael] Oakeshott, 6 June 1974
Memorandum from the Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times to Hugo Young, detailing a talk with George Thomson, 6 June 1974

[Lord] Hailsham, July 1974
Norman Atkinson, 10 July 1974
Shirley Williams, 12 July 1974

Perceptions of Roy Jenkins, 1 August 1974

'JL' [Labour MP] 30 November 1974

Memorandum from Ronald Butt, Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times to Hugo Young, to give a summary of lunch with Sir John Hunt, 5 December 1974
Memorandum from Ronald Butt, Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times to Hugo Young, to give a summary of lunch with Tony Benn, 5 December 1974
Comments to Bruce Page, about the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, 6 December 1974
Chris Patten, 11 December 1974
Gwyn Morgan, 12 December 1974
Alexander Lyon, 13 December 1974
Memorandum from the Editor of the Sunday Times, to Hugo Young, concerning notes of a lunch with a 'non-political source', dated 'late' 1974

[Anthony]Crosland, 14 January 1975
Douglas Hurd, 22 January 1975

Transcript of conversation between Denys Scott, former vice-chairman of Lexington International, Michael Jones and Peter Dunn about the Barnet Campaign, 6 March 1975
Martin Wright, 12 March 1975

Ian Gilmour, 9 April 1975
David Marquand, 15 April 1975

Tom McCaffrey, 21 May 1975
Dipak Nandy, 22 May 1975

Joe Haines, 25 June 1975

[John] Lyttle, 10 September 1975

Harold Wilson, 29 October 1975

Lunch with Harold Wilson and Roy Thomson, 26 November 1975
Notes on Defence cuts, November 1975

Memorandum from Deputy Editor of the Sunday Times to Hugo Young, detailing a talk with Henry Kissinger at Claridges, 16 December 1975

Douglas Hurd, 18 January 1976 - CLOSED
Lord Robens, 22 January 1976
Letter from Edward Heath to Hugo Young, declining invitation to discuss events of 1973-74, 28 January 1976
'HE' notes, 29 January 1976

Letter from Edward Heath to Harold Evans, 11 February 1976
Michael Wolff, 12 February 1976

Letter from Nigel Lawson to Hugo Young, concerning published material written by Hugo, 12 March 1976

Jim Prior, 3 June 1976
John Biffen, 3 June 1976
Gordon Wilson, 3 June 1976
William Whitelaw, 9 June 1976
John Biffen, 17 June 1976

'JP' (Conservative MP) 21 July 1976
Conservations entitled 'Pound notes' with Edmund Dell, Shirley Williams, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, and Jack Straw, all commenting on economic policy 28-29 September 1976

Burke Trend, 14 October 1976

Notes sent to Hugo Young about immigration, 28 October 1976

David Owen, 18 November 1976

'Note on the Left from moderate Whitehall advisor', undated
Note to 'Peter' containing relevant statistics that he may wish to use, undated
Mick McGahey, undated
'DB', undated
R Darlington, undated
Harris, undated
[Lord] Merlyn, undated
K Spears, undated
Tam Dalyell, undated
Francis Pym, undated
Leon Brittan, undated
Notes on Hattersley and Benn, undated*
[Frank] Soskice, undated

Significant subjects covered in conversation discussions include:

General Election 1970
General Election(s) 1974
Harold Wilson and his leadership of the Labour Party
Edward Heath and his leadership of the Conservative Party
Government foreign policy
Government defence policy
Campaign for leader of the Conservative Party
World energy crisis
The economy
Political situation in Ireland
Europe
UK European referendum
Prevention of Terrorism Act
Immigration
South African Arms
Creator: DS/UK/122

Photographs, mostly related to the Sunday Times projects and staff, credited to other photographers (shown in brackets) or picturing Sally Soames. Including:

The Royal Show, Coventry - July 1963
Harold Wilson at an open air election meeting (2 prints) - 19 September 1964
Car racing track- 1964
'My car and I' for Observer Magazine - 1964-1965
Underwear shots (Michael Ward) (3 prints) - 11 December 1968
Athens (2 prints) - 1960s
Yom Kippur War: Golan Heights (2 prints) - 1973
With Mordechai Gur (2 prints) - 1975
Sunday Times Picture Desk Christmas Party (2 prints) - 1976
With Eve Arnold at Tory Conference (Chris Davies) - 1977
Ron Meekius' retirement lunch (3 prints) - 1977-1978
Tory Party Conference - 1978
'Wharton, Me, Frank + [Geremy] Scarf' - 1978
'Sally Soames RIP' with George Darker and Edwin Taylor (3 prints) - 1979
'Sunday Times comes back after suspension' (Michael Ward) - November 1979
Picture Desk Lunch - 1979
The Steel Strike, Sheerness with Frank Barratt and Roger Bamber (Brian Harris) - February 1980
New Picture Editor (2 prints) - June 1980
Labour Party Conference (Srdja Djukanovic & Don McPhee) (4 prints) - 1980
Christopher Angeloglou - April/May 1981
In Rome when the Pope was Shot - May 1981
Conservative Conference, Blackpool (Ashley -- of Financial Times) (2 prints) - 1981
Faulkland Island crisis cabinet meeting (Michael Ward) - 24 April 1982
With News Editor Tony Dawe - 1982
With Mike Cranmer at the Sunday Times (Duncan Baxter) (2 prints) - July 1983
Saturday in Hyde Park (Jane Bown) - July 1983
London Zoo (Michael Ward) (2 prints) - 14 September 1983
Grand Hotel Brighton (John Voos) - 1984
At the park (Duncan Baxter) - 1984
In hospital the day Hugo Young left (Michael Ward) (2 prints) - 1984
Sunday Times Picture Desk - September 1985
Jack Hallam Funeral (Michael Ward & Duncan Baxter) (4 prints) - 16 October 1986
General Election, Israel, with 'darling Mr. P' (2 prints) - c. 1986
Beverley Hills with Hammer and Crosland (5 prints) - 1987
The launch of 'Manpower' (4 prints) - 1987
'Obituary photo for Sally Soames' (Neil Libbert) - 1980s (1 print, and 1 copy negative)
With the Sunday Times drivers - nd
Portrait of Sally Soames by John Fielding (4 prints) - nd
Photographs of Sally and of two unknown men (packaged with Magan Broshi negs) (4 prints) - nd

& others
Creator: DS/UK/122

Photographs of Sunday Times staff, buildings and events by Sally Soames, including:

Michael Ward outside 200 Grays Inn Road, Christmas 1968
Steve Brodie's Funeral, April 1978
Last night a the Sunday Times before its closure during the industrial dispute (6 prints), November 1978
May, Chester, Bambridge & Dawe (annotated), 17 November 1979
First night back after the industrial dispute closure (6 prints), 18 November 1979
Darkroom Staff, Grays Inn Road (2 prints), November 1979
Duke Hussey with last copies of The Times and Sunday Times (3 prints), 1979
William Rees Mogg in the empty newsrooom, 1979
Sunday Times NUJ Chapel Commitee press conference, 1979
Sale of the Sunday Times - watching the TV announcement in the newsroom, November 1980
Rupert Murdoch at the Sunday Times for the first time, meeting the printers, 1981
The last 'hot' pages, 26 February 1983
Frank Giles and Henry Brandon (3 prints), 29 April 1983
Picture Desk, Grays Inn Road ('Duncan and Mark are missing'), September 1985
200 Grays Inn Road, January 1989
Frank Giles (2 prints), nd
The Sunday Times football team, nd
Rupert Murdoch and Harry Evans at Grays Inn Rd after the purchase, nd
Magnus Linklater (News Editor) & Tony Dawe (deputy News Editor), nd
Michael Roberts (2 prints), nd
Harry Evans' Office , nd
Steve Brodie and Shirley Freeman, nd
Barry Fitzgerald and Ginger Wilson ('Union FOC's who brought Sunday Times to its knees'), nd
NUJ Crisis poster, nd

& Others